In retrospect, it was something of a demure mug shot.

Buttoned up into a waist-whittling and broad-shouldered bar blazer, a flower tucked into her upswept milk braid, and thin spectacles perched upon her nose, Rosa Parks couldn’t have looked more like a lady when she was arrested by the police in Montgomery, Alabama, in December of 1955.

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